unpleasurable
Example Sentences
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Dr. Nadal, speaking for Team 1, said in an interview that “humans appear to use only one pleasure system to assess how pleasurable or unpleasurable a sensory experience is.”
From New York Times ● Apr. 10, 2018
The Cellphone Is Ready for Its Close-Up “The Canyons” — directed Paul Schrader, written by Bret Easton Ellis and starring Lindsay Lohan — is a dispiriting, unpleasurable work punctuated with flashes of vitalizing vulgarity.
From New York Times ● Aug. 1, 2013
This is an extreme case; but the ultimate effect of parasitism is always a paralysis of the will and an inability to compel oneself into any course of action for the moment unpleasurable and exhaustive.
From Woman and Labour by Olive Schreiner
He was young still, and in a few years he would look back on all his misery with a sadness in which there would be something not unpleasurable.
From Moon and Sixpence by W. Somerset (William Somerset) Maugham
"I hardly thought it of Mellony," he added in not unpleasurable reflection, "nor yet of Ira."
From A Christmas Accident and Other Stories by Annie Eliot Trumbull
